WORK OF THE HOLY SPIRIT (13 OF 21)
Scripture: John 16:5-15
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Work of the Holy Spirit (13 of 21)
Series: The Upper Room
Stephen Whitney
John 16:5-15
It is hard to say goodbye and harder to say goodbye when you know you will not be coming back. My father, Gordon, developed a brain tumor in 1991 and in December 1993 it grew to the point where it was shutting down all of the organs in his body. When
I flew home from Fort Campbell Kentucky to see him in the hospital in Princeton, New Jersey about 900 miles.
I visited two times with him in the hospital before I headed back.
When I walked out of his room the second time, I knew I would never see him again. He died a couple of weeks later.
Jesus is going to leave his disciples and return to heaven where
he came from before being born in Bethlehem 30 years ago.
He wants to encourage the disciples so they are not discouraged
when he is no longer physically present with them.
CONFUSION OF DISCIPLES :5-7
Him who sent me - is God his heavenly Father (5:37; 6:44).
Jesus came to do the will of the Father who send him to earth to take on a human body so that he could die as our substitute.
None asks me, ‘‘Where are you going?’’ - Peter had asked (13:36)
and Thomas had asked (14:5), but they were so absorbed with their own sorrow about Jesus leaving them that they did not really have an interest in where he was going, just that he was leaving them.
:6 Just hearing Jesus was leaving them brought sorrow to their hearts. It seemed they were only thinking about what would happen to them when he left and they no longer had a leader.
The disciples were lost in their own sorrow so they didn’t ask
Jesus about what was going to happen to him in the future.
Often, we are so focused on our own disappointments and
heartaches that we don’t see what God is doing in our lives.
Our sorrow blinds us to anything good that might happen.
Application
Their reaction is really a great insight into human nature.
We look at our lives the same way, how does this affect m ...
Series: The Upper Room
Stephen Whitney
John 16:5-15
It is hard to say goodbye and harder to say goodbye when you know you will not be coming back. My father, Gordon, developed a brain tumor in 1991 and in December 1993 it grew to the point where it was shutting down all of the organs in his body. When
I flew home from Fort Campbell Kentucky to see him in the hospital in Princeton, New Jersey about 900 miles.
I visited two times with him in the hospital before I headed back.
When I walked out of his room the second time, I knew I would never see him again. He died a couple of weeks later.
Jesus is going to leave his disciples and return to heaven where
he came from before being born in Bethlehem 30 years ago.
He wants to encourage the disciples so they are not discouraged
when he is no longer physically present with them.
CONFUSION OF DISCIPLES :5-7
Him who sent me - is God his heavenly Father (5:37; 6:44).
Jesus came to do the will of the Father who send him to earth to take on a human body so that he could die as our substitute.
None asks me, ‘‘Where are you going?’’ - Peter had asked (13:36)
and Thomas had asked (14:5), but they were so absorbed with their own sorrow about Jesus leaving them that they did not really have an interest in where he was going, just that he was leaving them.
:6 Just hearing Jesus was leaving them brought sorrow to their hearts. It seemed they were only thinking about what would happen to them when he left and they no longer had a leader.
The disciples were lost in their own sorrow so they didn’t ask
Jesus about what was going to happen to him in the future.
Often, we are so focused on our own disappointments and
heartaches that we don’t see what God is doing in our lives.
Our sorrow blinds us to anything good that might happen.
Application
Their reaction is really a great insight into human nature.
We look at our lives the same way, how does this affect m ...
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